2021: Poetic-ness, dramatic-ness and overall seriousness

ADDED: 19.07.2021

CONTENT: Random ramblings, work in progress

I talk about how I don't like making my stuff look "serious" serious

I don't really like making stuff poetic. Nor do I like making my stuff all that dramatic or serious, either. Anyone else can pull that off, but just not me, personally. I dunno exactly why I don't. Maybe I'm just too childish for my age, or maybe I just don't like taking myself all that seriously, or maybe it just doesn't click with me. Either way, I just don't like doing it.

First thing's my writing. I'm guessing this whole thing about me is why I like writing in this weird combination of screenplay and children's novels, rather than writing something that's artistically descriptive as your usual third-person novel. I mean, I guess there's the fact that I'm never confident in literary techniques that don't seem either typical or over-the-top, if that makes any sense. 

This applies to my dialogue, too. A lot of my style of writing dialogue, at least now, has been influenced by the comedies that I've watched, that are mostly Britcoms which I've observed to be more true-to-life, or however you might say it.     

I always feel fake when I'm writing something that's even a little dramatic, like as in fiction-type dramatic. Like, it works really effectively in fiction, but if someone said it in real life, it'd be a bit awkward. 

(But also, sometimes I'd get a little cheesy when I'm writing scenes where I want a character to be all badass and stuff. When

I noticed that even when I'm writing a little bit more of a serious scene, especially where characters are sad or upset, I usually just let the characters stay all quiet and I keep things from an outside point of view. I don't usually find myself 

I guess that's because usually, when I'm sad, I'm all quiet about it. Nobody really likes to